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Habit : | Trees up to 10 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark dark brown, shallowly fissured; blaze light brown. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, paripinnate, alternate, distichous; stipules in pairs, foliaceous, to 4 x 1.5 cm, narrow ovate, acuminate, with basal broad reniform appendage; rachis pulvinate, 5-13.5 cm long, slightly winged, otherwise terete; petiolule 0.5-0.8 cm long; leaflets 3 pairs, opposite or subopposite, usually lower pair slightly smaller than upper, lamina 9-25 x 2.5-7 cm, narrow elliptic or lanceolate, apex gradually long acuminate, base acute, margin entire, chartaceous to coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 9-13 pairs, ascending towards apex; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers white, in axillary racemes, tawny velvety. |
Fruit and Seed : | Pod flat, thin, tawny pubescent, to 20 cm long; 4-seeded. |